Introduction

Our group consists of four people, two girls and two boys. All of us are Caucasian and dependent on our parents. We all attend UW- Eau Claire and are freshmen who live in the dorms, have a meal plan, and under the age of 21.

The book My Freshman Year discusses what a professor learned by becoming a student at the university that she once taught at. She went through the steps to disguise herself by getting accepted based off of her old high school transcripts and by changing her name. In order to get the full freshmen experience she lives in the dorms, attends orientation and participates at welcome week. From observing the people around her she changes her dress and her vocabulary to fit in with all the other freshmen on campus. Throughout the book she compares her time spent on campus with her time being emersed in the several villages oversea; she is aware that although she may feel like part of the culture, she will never get the full experience of someone actually living out the culture.

Due to our groups demographics we will read this book a lot differently because we fit the stereotype of the "typical freshman" that is portrayed in her book.